Re: Problems running tarsnap-keygen

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi James,

James Montgomerie wrote:
> [~/admin] things$ tarsnap-keygen --keyfile ./tarsnap.key --user
> jamie@th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs --machine th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs
> Enter tarsnap account password:  < I enter the correct password here, as
> set up on www.tarsnap.com >
> tarsnap-keygen: error in AES_set_encrypt_key
> tarsnap-keygen: error in AES_set_encrypt_key
> tarsnap-keygen: Too many network failures
> tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server

Wow, that's a weird error -- that's an OpenSSL function which is failing, and
there's really no good reason why it should ever fail.  Can you check which
version of OpenSSL you have installed?

-- 
Colin Percival
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Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid